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Maureen Quartaro
I have just recently decided to buy my younger brothers an xbox 360 slim for their birthday. I would like to save as much money as possible so I am looking to get them the 4GB system. I understand there is 246GB difference in the systems, but should I really worry about this if all they are doing is saving gamer profiles on the console and saving games? They will not be adding it to xbox live so there is no need to save downloaded data or anything else from live. Will 4GB be sufficient enough for 5 gamer profiles and saved content?
Yes, that should have more than enough space for that. I've had my Xbox 360 for close to two and a half years, and after playing 100 or so games my profile takes up about 10MB. As for save games, I'm not sure how much space mine are taking but most save games are less than 1MB so there should be plenty of room for them as well.
If you do need more room and don't want to spring for the 250GB hard drive (now or later - it is cheaper to buy it with the console, though) you can always use USB drives for storage. The Xbox 360 supports drives up to 16GB.
Note that the vast majority of games don't require a hard drive, but some do. The only ones I'm aware of off hand are Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, and Halo Reach. In this case, you can play the game but you can't play the campaign or Firefight in co-op mode (at least online - not sure if the same restriction exists for local co-op).
It has enough for a saved games, but a concern would be that it restricts you ability to download updates and DLC for games, which can interfere with your ability to play online. For example, Burnout Paradise's free updates along would use up 1/3 of your space. And while Burnout is an outlier in file size, it's still possible for free updates of an average number of games to fill that drive. On my 360, which I've had for a couple of years now, I have 9GB used up between DLC, updates, saved games and three albums.
I would think yes becuase my Xbox only uses at least 1 mb to save a game and I've played at least 6 games and its down to 3 gb but if you get a hard drive that will be better for space and saving your account.sorry for my long sentences and using no periods I'm not from the America's I'm from Japan.
I have been using a Netgear R7800 router for about a year and have had no issues with it. I haven't dug into the additional features or this equipment but would like to start using it to help with backing up folders as well as using it to share pictures and videos across wifi. That being said, here's what we have in the house:
Netgear offers a list of compatable hard drives. Since this model is older, so are the HDs listed on their site ( -my-USB-drive-work-with-ReadySHARE). I'd like a 4TB or more HD to connect, and the few that are listed there are either not available, expensive, or of lesser quality than I'd prefer. Is there a way to verify any other option before purchasing a "better" HD?
In my case, first I already had the drives, both USB 2.0 and 3.0. They were attached to our PC's. 2 and 4TB WD's self-powered. Neither was really being used fully. That drove me to putting one on the router was I had some DVD's I ripped and put them on the drive and was sharing them from my PC to the iPad's and SmartTV. Only problem, PC had to be on all the time, so I moved that drive to the Router, made it easier for me. I also backed up from the PC's our pictures. We do make local backups on our 2 main PC's and occasionally I'll move one to the USB router drive as well. Basically the drive is used access only, and not being written to it most of the time, only rarely. It works for me at a minimum cost.
Many people actively use the drive it seems. As far as I can tell, if you are going to 'actively' use the drive, a NAS is the way to go, mostly because of access write speed. Sure storage space is larger, but so is the cost.
I suspect on a NAS you can get better control of access as well. We do have guests and family that connect to the LAN and I've password protected the main drive and created a share for the video's anyone can use. I'd have liked to password protected them too, but many DLNA clients can't handle that.
Right now, only a 2TB on the router (USB 2.0, speed is not a write concern to me), I've got about 800GB's of files, 6600 of them. Movies all ripped to other formats, 172 of them in various sizes (some small home stuff from camcorder), about 300GB's. Pictures, 6400 of them for 39GB's. The Acronis backup copies take up most of the space.
As I said, your situation might be different. If nothing else, and either you have a drive or want to spend a minimal amount, 4TB External Desktop drives are really cheap these days, might be worth a try. From your description of what you intend to do, it does sort of match mine?
I can't address the Apple question if Readyshare works or not. It should work using the Router USB device for sharing without the Readyshare program as well, and I have seen other people stating they have used it if that matters.
As for the USB drive... that list is almost useless IMHO. First, it is only a LIST that NG Support has TESTED and known to work. Want to be sure, get one of those, but really many many more do work. There are some simple rules though, and in some cases of drives, those really do not matter. The filesystem on the routers is not a full blown filesystem, and may not be the same 'feature rich' on all routers.
Do you have any thoughts on going with a NAS instead of a configuration like I originally posted? I've been contemplating that route for awhile now. The advantages for me would be for more storage space, which could also allow redundancy. We will be storing mostly family pictures and videos on whichever route we go as a means to backup those files as well as share them on the home network.
Basically it is a W10 'thing'. Would be the same for any LAN sharing if you are doing that. W10 as the last Fall Creator V1703 edition has depricated SMB1. It is OFF unless you specifically enable it, and in cases, W10 will turn it off again.
Netgear uses NETBIOS for sharing and share discovery, and as it seems most other residential routers. Some may not and use what MS enables one to use, WSD, in its place. NG on the R8000 and other routers still use NETBIOS and will not change to WSD (at this time). If not using ANY W10 PC's, no problems, but if you are ALL must have the SMB 1 Client manually enabled. This was done as SMB 1 can be a security hazard. The WannaCry Ransomware used this 'hole' for instance. If you have up to date Security though this is not a problem now.
Posted a question elsewhere, but found this post/reply. Took your device and reformatted to NTFS. The good news . . . the R7000 'found' the HD connected to the front of the unit. The bad news . . . after about 10 seconds it disappeared.
Looks like I'll be trying out a WD 4TB Elements Desktop HD ( =twister_B07HGRPHSK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1) to see if that works. I searched the comments for "readyshare" and one customer stated it worked for another NetGear model, so I'm hoping it will work for mine as well.
If I had things like photos that I did not want to loose then I would go with a NAS solution. While the router will support a HD on USB there is no redundancy, so if the drive fails, unless you are also making another copy somewhere you have lost things if the drive fails. I started down the HD on USB path then switched to a Synology NAS with mirrored drives. More expensive solution, but better protection of things you do not want to lose.
Thanks for that info as well. I think I'm eventually headed towards a NAS, but I'm going to start with the external HD option for now. We are cable cutters, so we stream from various sources, mainly Netflix, on a Roku and an Xbox. The NAS would also allow us to stream more content, which would be a nice option in the future. For now, though, I'll go with the HD and see how that goes.
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